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  A Front Line at the Border: How Russia Uses Migrants as Weapons Against Europe The scheme is part of Russia’s larger strategy for sowing discord in the West, if more subtle than other recent operations blamed on the Kremlin. Listen · 10:00 min A Latvian guard patrols the border with Belarus. Migrants have streamed into Latvia, many through considerable border defenses, cutting gaps in fencing or burrowing under it. Credit... Ints Kalnins/Reuters Oct. 2, 2026, 12:01 a.m. ET It seemed a small act of vandalism. A man was caught on a surveillance camera in August cutting through a border fence from Belarus into Latvia, where he bashed another such camera with a pole before fleeing back to where he had come from. Yet his crime was also emblematic of a broader security threat emanating from Belarus and its close ally Russia, Latvian officials, including the foreign minister, Baiba Braže, said in interviews in Riga. The Russian and Belarusian intelligence services are facilitating an el...
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  Big Tech out-lob bies European groups in Brus sels  US cor por a tions lever age their influ ence to push back against bloc’s over sight of industry  Financial Times UK 2 Oct 2026 LAURA DUBOIS — BRUSSELS CHRIS COOK — LONDON Addi tional report ing by Kana Inagaki in Lon don US Big Tech com pan ies have an out sized influ ence in Brus sels, spend ing more money and meet ing more often with EU poli cy makers than European com pan ies, accord ing to an FT ana lysis. Google, Apple and Amazon each have more meet ings with offi cials at the European par lia ment and European Com mis sion than any indi vidual European com pany, accord ing to an FT ana lysis of the EU’s trans par ency register and meet ing data bases for the two insti tu tions. Amer ican cor por a tions have used their influ ence in Brus sels to push back against the bloc’s digital rules, over which US Pres id ent Don ald Trump has threatened tar iffs in response to Europe seek ing “tech sov er eignty” to reduce...
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  The US is deploying seven additional warships to the Middle East carrying at least 9,000 troops, as President Donald Trump weighs resuming strikes on Iran after November’s midterm elections. The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and three accompanying destroyers left their port in San Diego earlier this week and are expected to arrive in the Middle East by the end of November, according to a US official. The USS Theodore Roosevelt could replace either of the aircraft carriers already stationed in the region — the USS George HW Bush and the USS George Washington — or join them. The USS Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group, which comprises an amphibious warship and two docking ships, was also travelling to the region, the official said. The ARG is also carrying the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit. Trump told Time magazine on Thursday that it was “possible” he could increase strikes after the midterms if a satisfactory deal was not reached with Tehran. Together, the ships are ca...
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  To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Today’s Points: Anthropic wants to hold its IPO before the end of next month; French bonds are tipping toward a full-blown crisis; In the US, bets on Fed tightening have relaxed a little; But Treasuries still don’t look cheap ; AND: Take a trip to Tokyo (not Mexico) before the carry trade blows up. Atlantic Crossing Could a revolution in the US light the touch paper for an even bigger and more violent upheaval in France? There are precedents , and now it looks as though a financial revolt that started in America has lit a fire across the Atlantic. The dynamics of the global bond sell-off are growing a little clearer, although it has many moving parts. Yields rose in September, sparked by a sharp shift in expectations for the Federal Reserve. France was one of the worst affected. As October begins, that pattern is intensifying. The move to dump French bonds and replace them with German bunds was am...
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  Do US law makers finally have capital in the crosshairs?  Financial Times Europe 2 Oct 2026 Oren Cass The writer is an FT con trib ut ing editor and chief eco nom ist at Amer ican Com pass  Greed is so often the undo ing of an oth er wise bril liant scheme. Never sat is fied, people become over con fid ent, push the envel ope too far. And everything comes tum bling down. The high-fly ers of fin ance seem headed towards a sim ilar fate, as cap ital’s share of US income con tin ues to rise, its share of tax pay ments con tin ues to fall, inequal ity wor sens, wealth con cen trates and defi cits become unsus tain able. All the while the fin an cial engin eer ing gets ever more absurd. For just one example, take AQR, the hedge fund behind a fairly recent innov a tion in tax avoid ance called the “tax-aware long-short” account, which wraps lever aged, straddled port fo lios around con ven tional equity indices or estab lished fund strategies to gen er ate large har vestable ...
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  L’Europa e le mire di Putin di Angelo Panebianco V anno ascoltati con attenzione gli argomenti usati, per perorare la loro causa, sia dai tanti filorussi in circolazione sia da coloro che, pur non avendo particolari simpatie per la Russia, ritengono che il realismo ci imponga di piegarci ai diktat del Cremlino. Gli argomenti sono tre. Il primo, continuamente usato fin dai primi giorni dell’invasione dell’Ucraina, è che l’aggressore apparente sia in realtà l’aggredito. La Russia sarebbe una vittima. Ha solo reagito per difendersi dall’arroganza e dalla volontà di dominio degli Stati Uniti. È una tesi che ha sempre fatto presa sugli affetti da antiamericanismo ed è inutile perdere tempo a replicare ancora. Lo si è già fatto tante volte. Più interessanti, anche perché più subdoli, meno scopertamente ideologici, sono gli altri due argomenti. Possiamo definirli «negazione plausibile» e «attenti, se tiriamo la corda ci aspetta l’Armageddon nucleare». La negazione plausibile dipende dal...
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  Navigated Menu Back Financial Times Financial Times UK 2 Oct 2026 Buttons.Search Options Global bond sell-off leaves US trapped in ‘vicious loop’ ▸ Treas­ury yield hits highest since 2002 ▸ Gulf war drives up bor­row­ing costs EMILY HERBERT AND IAN SMITH — LONDON WILLIAM SANDLUND — HONG KONG LEO LEWIS — TOKYO Settings Print Share Listen Bor­row­ing costs across the US and Europe surged yes­ter­day as pres­sure from the Iran war’s energy shock on pub­lic fin­ances intens­i­fied around the world. Yields on 10-year Treas­ur­ies climbed as much as 0.05 per­cent­age points to 5.34 per cent, a level last seen almost a quarter of a cen­tury ago. Bond yields rise as prices fall. Traders warned that the $32tn US gov­ern­ment bond mar­ket, an anchor for global fin­ance, was caught in a “vicious loop” of selling. The bonds later ral­lied to 5.24 per cent, down 0.05 per­cent­age points on the day. Selling in the US spread across the Atlantic, with the yield of the UK’s 30year gilt climb­ing ...
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